Mentor Graphics Delivers PADS 9.0 Flow Release Featuring the World’s Most Advanced Design Technologies
Mentor Graphics Corporation, the worldwide technology and market share leader in Printed Circuit Board design (PCB) solutions, today announced the availability of the next-generation PADS® flow with the introduction of PADS 9.0. This significantly-enhanced release of the PADS flow adds new levels of functionality, scalability and integration, enabling designers to leverage many of Mentor’s unique and innovative technologies for design, analysis, manufacturing and multi-disciplined collaboration. With the scalable PADS 9.0 flow, users can cost-effectively design their products from standard to the industry’s most complex, highest performance, and densest PCBs.
“With PADS high speed auto-routing, we were able to significantly reduce our design cycle, from more than two months to 40 hours,” stated Don Wood, electrical designer at SIE Computing Solutions, Inc. “We're looking forward to incorporating additional PADS capabilities, like HyperLynx signal integrity, to further reduce design spins and help us make better up-front decisions about our design strategies.”
Consistent with PADS 9.0 scalable flow strategy, Mentor now offers a series of pre-configured PADS Suites that address designer’s most aggressive technology needs at an extremely cost-effective price. A typical Suite configuration includes:
“The release of PADS 9.0 exemplifies Mentor’s continuing commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology to the world’s largest PCB design user community,” said Dan Boncella, director of marketing, Systems Design Division of Mentor Graphics. “PADS offers a low cost of entry, yet delivers high performance that exceeds any other desktop PCB design solution on the market.”
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